My suggestion is to consider the M20's set to "small" on your pre/pro, letting the sub handle the bass for LOUD ROCK,TECHNO,MOVIES, ETC! You'll get much more dynamic range and dynamic ability running this way, as opposed to running even the modest Pardigm 60's full range!...no contest.
Depending on the rest of your system, you may have a 2 channel pre running things full range for music. YOu would, in this case, sacrifice(maybe) some sonic purity by using a digital pre/pro and crossover for 2 channel, but depends. Even if so, it's way worth the benefit if your system needs more dynamic headroom and efficiency! And if you want to run your M20s full range for less ambitious levels and music, you'll loose nothing there.
For movies, you need a crossover and sub set up anyway!...even if your'e running larger Studio 100's, you should be crossing em over as "small", and letting a sub do the bottom! Dynamically, the 60's wont' hang run full range for DD/DTS movies anyway. YOu have to run em as "small" for best dynamic efficiency.
Yep, if it were me, and I had those two choices, I'd do M20's running full range for some music with a better 2 channel pre set up, and as "small" with heavy dynamic/louder level chores running from the digital pre/pro for movies and rock and such!
In that smaller room you would do just fine with a 5 channel set up. If you picked up a used krell HTS 5.1 pre/pro, and excellent amp to compliment, you'd have simply steller capability sonically! (The Krell is the best sounding DD/DTS 5.1 pre/pro you'll find for reasonable money used right now). YOu could pick up a used tube preamp and loop your digital av pre/pro through it for movie dubties..then simply use the 2 channel pre/pro for full range music dubties. Again, then with harder dyanmic stuff and movies, you could kick on the pre/pro and play everything as "small" plus a sub!
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Depending on the rest of your system, you may have a 2 channel pre running things full range for music. YOu would, in this case, sacrifice(maybe) some sonic purity by using a digital pre/pro and crossover for 2 channel, but depends. Even if so, it's way worth the benefit if your system needs more dynamic headroom and efficiency! And if you want to run your M20s full range for less ambitious levels and music, you'll loose nothing there.
For movies, you need a crossover and sub set up anyway!...even if your'e running larger Studio 100's, you should be crossing em over as "small", and letting a sub do the bottom! Dynamically, the 60's wont' hang run full range for DD/DTS movies anyway. YOu have to run em as "small" for best dynamic efficiency.
Yep, if it were me, and I had those two choices, I'd do M20's running full range for some music with a better 2 channel pre set up, and as "small" with heavy dynamic/louder level chores running from the digital pre/pro for movies and rock and such!
In that smaller room you would do just fine with a 5 channel set up. If you picked up a used krell HTS 5.1 pre/pro, and excellent amp to compliment, you'd have simply steller capability sonically! (The Krell is the best sounding DD/DTS 5.1 pre/pro you'll find for reasonable money used right now). YOu could pick up a used tube preamp and loop your digital av pre/pro through it for movie dubties..then simply use the 2 channel pre/pro for full range music dubties. Again, then with harder dyanmic stuff and movies, you could kick on the pre/pro and play everything as "small" plus a sub!
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